Any restrictions to speech are no different on the net than in a public square. Slander and defamation are the same in cyberspace and meatspace.
You say the internet is an amplifier of speech. You seem to forget that anyone on the internet has the same possibilities as long as they have access. This in contrast to broadcast media and the printing press. But this equality is constantly threatened.
And it doesn't apply to those who don't have access. Essentially they don't have a voice. And as such any freedom of speech is meaningless and practically nonexistent.
The PLO hijacked airplanes to make themselves heard. Had the internet had the spread back then as it does now they wouldn't have needed to. But more than two thirds of the world's population are still not online.
A host of companies believe the better way to connect the estimated half of Earth's population that's still offline is to launch "constellations" of smaller satellites into low Earth orbit
A host of companies is wrong.
Satellite is the best way to provide coverage on the high seas, where there is a dearth of cell phone coverage.
On land, glass fiber is always best. With the amount of it that has been dumped into the sea for intercontinental links, covering the quarter of the surface that isn't ocean should be no problem. Even if in practice the last mile tends to be radio.
And the population that doesn't exist on-line yet is not half, but between two thirds and three quarters. Availability of carriers is not the big problem though. Availability of electricity is.
Shouldn't the presentation be themed by user preferences?
The application (or program, or logic, call it what you will) itself should not need to care at all about how it is rendered. What matters is the functionality.
And in that regard I would much rather have a proper hierarchical grouping of tabs that makes efficient use of screen real estate. Parent tabs, followed by the current tabd, followed by immediate child tabs, followed by sibling tabs, with separators or shapes or colours indicating the difference, on one line, direction determined by locale. That would make a real difference.
Cosmetic differences are cosmetic. CSS can handle that, or the toolkit or the window manager or whatever. Visual integration by separation of concerns.
Contractually, then. IANAL. Same difference: If they fail to make as much profit as possible, they will go to jail and be replaced with someone else.
The point is that the world does not revolve around them. If you own enough stock, you have a say in how a company operates. And most stock-holders don't care about what a company does, they care about how much money they can make from it, through dividends or, more often, fluctuations in the company value. And if that is not enough, by asset stripping.
If you are in the position of an executive, do you think you are at liberty to not do things that put money into your investors' pockets just because they are morally repugnant?
And those stock-holders often aren't even individual people either, but funds with their own policies, policies which might be set up with the purpose of protecting their investors against being cheated out of profits or other morally repugnant practices.
A few years ago the USA's own immigration and customs enforcement DNS-blocked a Spanish sports betting site. What do you suggest the rest of the world do about it? Blackhole all IP addresses assigned to the USA? Seems exvessive, but if you think it would help keep the internet available there, maybe we should.
Not to mention that the sentences for possession of crack were set higher than for pure cocaine.
But the crime rate in Detroit rose with the ratification of the free trade agreement between the USA and the United States of Mexico, when people who previously had pension plans couldn't even afford to bury their dead anymore from one year to the next.
Norway did what President Mosaddegh did in Iran, and President Hussein attempted to do in Iraq? But Mosaddegh was overthrown and replaced by a Shah by the Brits, Hussein was overthrown and hanged by the Americans. The king of Norway, Olav V., was not overthrown.
Maybe it's just because Norway doesn't trade their oil in Euros, like Venezuela does, Hussein wanted Iraq to do, and then ex-president of Libya Gaddafi, whose untimely demise was arranged by the CIA, suggested the African Union do? But Kroner aren't Petrodollars either.
Or maybe because Statoil (now Equinor), who handles most of Norway's fossil oil and gas, is some corporation, a publicly traded one even, after all.
Or maybe it's something else. Like Norway being a monarchy already. Or like the race for arctic oil between Scotland, Norway, and Russia, in which Norway is too valuable an ally for the Brits and Yankees.
feel free to name one, JUST ONE majority-black nation (or even a city!) that's a pleasant prosperous place to live.
Nigeria.
Cities in the USA where the majority of the population is poor an criminalised fail and decay into high crime hellholes, that may be because of the graduate to prison programs that the USA is famous for.
What kind of idiot mistakes assistive technology for autonomous driving?
The Tesla Model S is no self-driving horseless carriage. It has an autopilot, yes, but it is a long way from picking you up when you call it on your Dick Tracey watch.
It doesn't drive for you. At best, it makes driving easier, like an automatic transmission or a cruise control, and maybe safer, like an anti-locking braking system.
It is not a self-driving car. If you are looking for one of those, you are at the wrong company, and should look at the Google car instead.
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The guests being hospitable to their hosts.
Something is very wrong here.
But it is true that Canberra acts as if the aboriginal population did not exist.
They also don't care much about what ther voters think of their policies.
Any restrictions to speech are no different on the net than in a public square. Slander and defamation are the same in cyberspace and meatspace.
You say the internet is an amplifier of speech. You seem to forget that anyone on the internet has the same possibilities as long as they have access. This in contrast to broadcast media and the printing press. But this equality is constantly threatened.
And it doesn't apply to those who don't have access. Essentially they don't have a voice. And as such any freedom of speech is meaningless and practically nonexistent.
The PLO hijacked airplanes to make themselves heard. Had the internet had the spread back then as it does now they wouldn't have needed to. But more than two thirds of the world's population are still not online.
A host of companies believe the better way to connect the estimated half of Earth's population that's still offline is to launch "constellations" of smaller satellites into low Earth orbit
A host of companies is wrong.
Satellite is the best way to provide coverage on the high seas, where there is a dearth of cell phone coverage.
On land, glass fiber is always best. With the amount of it that has been dumped into the sea for intercontinental links, covering the quarter of the surface that isn't ocean should be no problem. Even if in practice the last mile tends to be radio.
And the population that doesn't exist on-line yet is not half, but between two thirds and three quarters. Availability of carriers is not the big problem though. Availability of electricity is.
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And?
I just want to say that "The Avengers" are John Steed and Emma Peel. ("The New Avengers" John Steed and Tara King.)
Marvel's superhero team is just "Avengers", without the definite article.
Shouldn't the presentation be themed by user preferences?
The application (or program, or logic, call it what you will) itself should not need to care at all about how it is rendered. What matters is the functionality.
And in that regard I would much rather have a proper hierarchical grouping of tabs that makes efficient use of screen real estate. Parent tabs, followed by the current tabd, followed by immediate child tabs, followed by sibling tabs, with separators or shapes or colours indicating the difference, on one line, direction determined by locale. That would make a real difference.
Cosmetic differences are cosmetic.
CSS can handle that, or the toolkit or the window manager or whatever.
Visual integration by separation of concerns.
You are confusing economic science with economic practice.
You probably don't know the difference between macroeconomics and business economics either.
If they were selling products from China in Germany, they would already be in the European market, wouldn't they.
Contractually, then. IANAL. Same difference: If they fail to make as much profit as possible, they will go to jail and be replaced with someone else.
The point is that the world does not revolve around them.
If you own enough stock, you have a say in how a company operates. And most stock-holders don't care about what a company does, they care about how much money they can make from it, through dividends or, more often, fluctuations in the company value. And if that is not enough, by asset stripping.
If you are in the position of an executive, do you think you are at liberty to not do things that put money into your investors' pockets just because they are morally repugnant?
And those stock-holders often aren't even individual people either, but funds with their own policies, policies which might be set up with the purpose of protecting their investors against being cheated out of profits or other morally repugnant practices.
I didn't know that television was considered a social medium.
A few years ago the USA's own immigration and customs enforcement DNS-blocked a Spanish sports betting site. What do you suggest the rest of the world do about it? Blackhole all IP addresses assigned to the USA? Seems exvessive, but if you think it would help keep the internet available there, maybe we should.
Stop calling it "social media" already! It's just messaging, chat rooms and forums!
The great white males are the establishment.
Executives are at the behest of stock holders. They are legally required to make them as much profit as possible.
They see kids (and users ingeneral) as raw material.
It's not a war on kids, it's the same old war for eyeballs.
67%? Last time I checked it was still 70%.
The major difference between Equinor and an American corporation is that Equinor pays not just dividends, but also taxes.
Not to mention that the sentences for possession of crack were set higher than for pure cocaine.
But the crime rate in Detroit rose with the ratification of the free trade agreement between the USA and the United States of Mexico, when people who previously had pension plans couldn't even afford to bury their dead anymore from one year to the next.
The House of Saud spend some of their oil money on a basic income for their subjects.
They also invest in solar energy.
Entered the work force in '99. That makes you a "Gen Xer", not a "Millennial".
Norway did what President Mosaddegh did in Iran, and President Hussein attempted to do in Iraq? But Mosaddegh was overthrown and replaced by a Shah by the Brits, Hussein was overthrown and hanged by the Americans. The king of Norway, Olav V., was not overthrown.
Maybe it's just because Norway doesn't trade their oil in Euros, like Venezuela does, Hussein wanted Iraq to do, and then ex-president of Libya Gaddafi, whose untimely demise was arranged by the CIA, suggested the African Union do? But Kroner aren't Petrodollars either.
Or maybe because Statoil (now Equinor), who handles most of Norway's fossil oil and gas, is some corporation, a publicly traded one even, after all.
Or maybe it's something else. Like Norway being a monarchy already. Or like the race for arctic oil between Scotland, Norway, and Russia, in which Norway is too valuable an ally for the Brits and Yankees.
feel free to name one, JUST ONE majority-black nation (or even a city!) that's a pleasant prosperous place to live.
Nigeria.
Cities in the USA where the majority of the population is poor an criminalised fail and decay into high crime hellholes, that may be because of the graduate to prison programs that the USA is famous for.
What kind of idiot mistakes assistive technology for autonomous driving?
The Tesla Model S is no self-driving horseless carriage. It has an autopilot, yes, but it is a long way from picking you up when you call it on your Dick Tracey watch.
It doesn't drive for you. At best, it makes driving easier, like an automatic transmission or a cruise control, and maybe safer, like an anti-locking braking system.
It is not a self-driving car. If you are looking for one of those, you are at the wrong company, and should look at the Google car instead.
The American government is an inspiration to all its citizens. Next we will hear from a kid that replicates the Tuskegee experiment.
Time travel has always been impossible. They just discovered yet another way to prove it.